"heard in his earlier operas such as ""Der fliegende Holländer"", ""Tannhäuser"" and ""Lohengrin""; and he was prepared to violate accepted musical conventions, such as tonality, in his quest for greater expressivity. In his mature music dramas, ""Tristan und Isolde"", ""Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg"", ""Der Ring des Nibelungen"" and ""Parsifal"", he abolished the distinction between aria and recitative in favour of a seamless flow of ""endless melody"". Wagner also brought a new philosophical dimension to opera in his works, which were usually based on stories from Germanic or Arthurian legend. Finally, Wagner built his own opera house at Bayreuth with part"
"of the Rhine gold after his renunciation of love; his fashioning of the all-powerful ring from the gold and his enslavement of the Nibelungs; Wotan's seizure of the gold and the ring, to pay his debt to the giants who have built his fortress Valhalla; Alberich's curse on the ring and its possessors; Erda's warning to Wotan to forsake the ring; the early manifestation of the curse's power after Wotan yields the ring to the giants; and the gods' uneasy entry into Valhalla, under the shadow of their impending doom. Having completed his opera ""Lohengrin"" in April 1848, Richard Wagner"
"Lolita (opera) Lolita () is an opera in two acts by composer Rodion Shchedrin. Composed in 1992, it uses a Russian language libretto by the composer which is based on Vladimir Nabokov's 1955 novel of the same name, written in English. The opera premiered in 1994 at the Royal Swedish Opera, Stockholm, using a Swedish language translation of the original libretto. ""Lolita"" is Shchedrin's fourth work for the stage based on literary works by Russian writers. He had already been his own librettist in composing a film score and a ballet based on Tolstoy's ""Anna Karenina"" (1972), an opera based"
"Karl Beck (tenor) Karl Beck (1814 4 March 1879) was an Austrian operatic tenor who is notable for creating the title role in Richard Wagner's opera ""Lohengrin"" in Weimar, Germany in 1850. He also sang the title role in Hector Berlioz's opera ""Benvenuto Cellini"" in its first performance outside France, also in Weimar, in 1852. Both performances were marred by a deterioration in his vocal powers probably caused by a lingering infection. He ended his career as master baker to the Imperial Court in Vienna. Karl Beck was born in Vienna in 1814. Before coming to the stage he was"
"related cultural figure. Leo Tolstoy Rabindranath Tagore Martin Luther King, Jr. Satyagraha (opera) Satyagraha (; Sanskrit सत्याग्रह, ""satyāgraha"" ""insistence on truth"") is a 1979 opera in three acts for orchestra, chorus and soloists, composed by Philip Glass, with a libretto by Glass and Constance DeJong. Loosely based on the life of Mahatma Gandhi, it forms the second part of Glass's ""Portrait Trilogy"" of operas about men who changed the world, which includes ""Einstein on the Beach"" and ""Akhnaten"". Glass's style can broadly be described as minimalist. The work is scored for 2 sopranos, 2 mezzo-sopranos, 2 tenors, a baritone, 2"
"John Lundgren (baritone) John Otto Lundgren (born October 12, 1968) is a Swedish dramatic baritone opera singer. Educated at Vadstena Academy and in The Opera Academy in Copenhagen. During his studies he joined the ensemble of The Royal Danish Theatre and debuted as Schaunard in La Bohème. Since then he has frequently been singing in stagings in The Royal Danish Theatre, e.g. Enrico Ashton in Lucia di Lammermoor, Posa in Don Carlos, Amonasro in Aida, Scarpia in Tosca, Kurwenal in Tristan und Isolde, and the title role of Der Fliegende Holländer. He has continued to sing many of these roles"
"to seduce him, he refuses to consummate the marriage. Eventually one of the pillows changes into a swan and Lohengrin returns to the moon on its back. The opera ends with the revelation that Elsa is actually a patient in a psychiatric ward. Sciarrino: ""Lohengrin"" – Gruppo Strumentale Musica d'Oggi Sciarrino: ""Lohengrin"" – Ensemble Risognanze Lohengrin (Sciarrino) Lohengrin ""(Azione invisibile per solista, strumenti e voci)"" is an operatic monodrama by the Italian composer Salvatore Sciarrino. Premiered in 1982 in Milan the work was later revised by Sciarrino and the new version was premiered in on 9 September 1984 in Catanzaro."
"in Rossini's ""Otello"", Verdi's ""Ernani"", Spontini's ""Fernand Cortez"", and Meyerbeer's ""Robert le diable"", as well as Max in Weber's ""Der Freischütz"" and Pollione in Bellini's ""Norma"". He died in Vienna on 4 March 1879, aged about 65. Notes Sources Karl Beck (tenor) Karl Beck (1814 4 March 1879) was an Austrian operatic tenor who is notable for creating the title role in Richard Wagner's opera ""Lohengrin"" in Weimar, Germany in 1850. He also sang the title role in Hector Berlioz's opera ""Benvenuto Cellini"" in its first performance outside France, also in Weimar, in 1852. Both performances were marred by a"
"Selective bibliography Richard Strauss Richard Georg Strauss (; 11 June 1864 – 8 September 1949) was a leading German composer of the late Romantic and early modern eras. He is known for his operas, which include ""Der Rosenkavalier"", ""Elektra"", ""Die Frau ohne Schatten"" and ""Salome""; his Lieder, especially his ""Four Last Songs""; his tone poems, including ""Don Juan"", ""Death and Transfiguration"", ""Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks"", ""Also sprach Zarathustra"", ""Ein Heldenleben"", ""Symphonia Domestica"", and ""An Alpine Symphony""; and other instrumental works such as ""Metamorphosen"" and his Oboe Concerto. Strauss was also a prominent conductor in Western Europe and the Americas, enjoying"
"Leonora (opera) Leonora, ossia L’amore coniugale (""Leonora or Conjugal Love"") is an opera (specifically a ""dramma semiserio"") in two acts by the Italian composer Ferdinando Paer. The libretto, by Giovanni Schmidt, is based on ""Léonore ou L’Amour conjugal"" (1794) by Jean-Nicolas Bouilly, which was also the source of Beethoven's ""Fidelio"". Beethoven himself owned a score of Paer's opera and it is believed to have had some influence on his work. ""Leonora"" was first performed at the Kleines Kurfürstliches Theater, Dresden on 3 October 1804 with the composer's wife singing the title role. Leonora disguises herself as a man in order"
"Richard Strauss Richard Georg Strauss (; 11 June 1864 – 8 September 1949) was a leading German composer of the late Romantic and early modern eras. He is known for his operas, which include ""Der Rosenkavalier"", ""Elektra"", ""Die Frau ohne Schatten"" and ""Salome""; his Lieder, especially his ""Four Last Songs""; his tone poems, including ""Don Juan"", ""Death and Transfiguration"", ""Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks"", ""Also sprach Zarathustra"", ""Ein Heldenleben"", ""Symphonia Domestica"", and ""An Alpine Symphony""; and other instrumental works such as ""Metamorphosen"" and his Oboe Concerto. Strauss was also a prominent conductor in Western Europe and the Americas, enjoying quasi-celebrity status"
"Bridal Chorus The ""Bridal Chorus"" () from the 1850 opera ""Lohengrin"" by German composer Richard Wagner – who also wrote the libretto – is a march played for the bride's entrance at many formal weddings throughout the Western world. In English-speaking countries it is generally known as ""Here Comes the Bride"" or ""Wedding March"", though ""wedding march"" refers to any piece in march tempo accompanying the entrance or exit of the bride, notably Felix Mendelssohn's ""Wedding March"". The piece was made popular when it was used as the processional at the wedding of Victoria the Princess Royal to Prince Frederick"
"Virginia Guerrini Virginia Guerrini (20 February 1871, Brescia – 26 February 1948, Brescia) was an Italian operatic mezzo-soprano. She made her professional opera debut at the Garibaldi Theatre in Treviso as Elsa in Richard Wagner's ""Lohengrin"" in 1889. The following year she made her debuts at the Teatro Lirico Giuseppe Verdi as Laura in ""La Gioconda"", the Teatro Dal Verme in Milan as Adalgisa in Vincenzo Bellini's ""Norma"", the Liceu in Ortrud in ""Lohengrin"", and Loretta in Alberto Franchetti's ""Asrael"" at the Teatro Regio in Turin. In 1892 Guerrini made her debut at La Scala as Adalagisa. At La Scala"
"theater and the pagan elements of Wagner's operas. The Roman Catholic Church generally does not use the ""Bridal Chorus""; one diocese's guidelines regarding the chorus state that the chorus is a secular piece of music, that it is not a processional to the altar in the opera, and especially that its frequent use in film and television associate it with sentimentality rather than worship. Bridal Chorus The ""Bridal Chorus"" () from the 1850 opera ""Lohengrin"" by German composer Richard Wagner – who also wrote the libretto – is a march played for the bride's entrance at many formal weddings throughout"
"Onegin"" in Mainz, ""La traviata"" and ""The Cunning Little Vixen"" at the Hamburg State Opera. A long term cooperation was established with Graz Opera during the directorship of Elisabeth Sobotka (2009-2015). In Graz Erath directed Alban Berg's ""Lulu"" and Mozart's ""Don Giovanni"" (both 2010), ""Elektra"" by Hugo von Hofmannsthal und Richard Strauss (2012), Wagner's ""Lohengrin"" (2013) and Korngold's ""Die tote Stadt"" (2015). Especially ""Lohengrin"" — 2015 transferred to Oslo Opera — achieved high acclaim from public and press. Vienna's Kurier praised the direction as ″poetic, visually stunning and partially fairytale like.″ The costumes for this production were designed by French"
"and the book-length ""Opera and Drama"" (1851). Franz Liszt however offered to premiere ""Lohengrin"" in Weimar, where he was ""Kapellmeister"" to the court, and the production took place there in 1850. In the wake of this it was proposed to publish the librettos of Wagner's three most recent operas, (all of which had been written, as was normal with Wagner, by the composer himself); ""Der fliegende Holländer"",""Tannhäuser"", and ""Lohengrin"". However, Wagner was very conscious that his concept of opera had significantly moved on since writing these works, to the extent that they hardly met – and in some aspects fell"
"Lundgren´s repertoire includes: John Lundgren (baritone) John Otto Lundgren (born October 12, 1968) is a Swedish dramatic baritone opera singer. Educated at Vadstena Academy and in The Opera Academy in Copenhagen. During his studies he joined the ensemble of The Royal Danish Theatre and debuted as Schaunard in La Bohème. Since then he has frequently been singing in stagings in The Royal Danish Theatre, e.g. Enrico Ashton in Lucia di Lammermoor, Posa in Don Carlos, Amonasro in Aida, Scarpia in Tosca, Kurwenal in Tristan und Isolde, and the title role of Der Fliegende Holländer. He has continued to sing many"
"severe, avoiding conventional lyricism. Antigone (Honegger) Antigone is an opera (""tragédie musicale"") in three acts by Arthur Honegger to a French libretto by Jean Cocteau based on the tragedy ""Antigone"" by Sophocles. Honegger composed the opera between 1924 and 1927. It premiered on 28 December 1927 at the Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie with sets designed by Pablo Picasso and costumes by Coco Chanel. Honegger had a passionate interest in theatre. Prior to ""Antigone"", he had composed film scores and incidental music for plays as well as an oratorio, ""Le roi David"", which he called a ""dramatic psalm"" and premiered"
"Richard Wagner's ""Lohengrin"" (in 1976 and 1980, at the Metropolitan Opera). His evenly produced, beautiful and sonorous voice made him one of the leading bassi-cantanti of his generation. He died on 11 June 2018 at the age of 85. Bonaldo Giaiotti Bonaldo Giaiotti (25 December 1932 – 11 June 2018) was an Italian operatic bass, particularly associated with the Italian repertory. Born in Udine, he studied in his native city and later in Milan with Alfredo Starno, where he made his debut at the Teatro Nuovo in 1957. After singing with success in various opera houses in Italy, he made"
"Ducal Vault at Weimar's Historical Cemetery. Eckermann closes his famous work, ""Conversations with Goethe"", with this passage: The first production of Richard Wagner's opera ""Lohengrin"" took place in Weimar in 1850. The conductor was Franz Liszt, who chose the date 28 August in honour of Goethe, who was born on 28 August 1749. The most important of Goethe's works produced before he went to Weimar were ""Götz von Berlichingen"" (1773), a tragedy that was the first work to bring him recognition, and the novel ""The Sorrows of Young Werther"" (German: ""Die Leiden des jungen Werthers"") (1774), which gained him enormous"
"of the score. The opera tells the life of Christopher Columbus in a series of episodes which avoid chronological order and are sometimes allegorical. Christophe Colomb Christophe Colomb (""Christopher Columbus"") is an opera in two parts by the French composer Darius Milhaud. The poet Paul Claudel wrote the libretto based on his own play about the life of Christopher Columbus, ""Le Livre de Christophe Colomb"". The opera was first performed at the Staatsoper, Berlin on 5 May 1930 in a German translation by Rudolph Stephan Hoffmann. Milhaud thoroughly revised the work and produced a second version around 1955. The opera"
"Ortruda, Maurel as Friedrich, and Wladyslaw Seideman as Heinrich. The opera's first performance in Australia took place at the Prince of Wales Theatre in Melbourne on 18 August 1877. The Metropolitan Opera mounted the opera for the first time on 7 November 1883, in Italian, during the company's inaugural season. Campanini portrayed the title role with Christina Nilsson as Elsa, Emmy Fursch-Madi as Ortrud, Giuseppe Kaschmann as Telramund, Franco Novara as Heinrich, and Auguste Vianesi conducting. ""Lohengrin"" was first publicly performed in France at the Eden-Théâtre in Paris on 30 April 1887 in a French translation by Charles-Louis-Étienne Nuitter. Conducted"
"Gialdino Gialdini Gialdino Gialdini (10 November 1842 – 6 March 1919) was an Italian composer and orchestra conductor. Gialdini was born in Pescia, Tuscany, and studied at Florence with Teodulo Mabellini. He won a prize offered by the Pergola Theatre of that city for the best opera, with ""Rosmunda"", which met, however, with an unfavorable reception when produced in 1868. After two more operas he tired of composing operas and started conducting opera productions, to international acclaim. In 1889 he conducted Wagner's ""Lohengrin"" at Bologna. Later he returned to composing operas. In September 1904 he became the Artistic Director of"
"he was unknown in Germany despite his international experience. Beck was selected to create the title role in Richard Wagner's opera ""Lohengrin"" in 1850, a production directed by Franz Liszt. Wagner had written the Act III tenor monologue ""In fernem land"" (the ""Grail Narration"") in two parts, however, he asked Liszt to cut the second part from the premiere performance, as he felt Beck could not do it justice and it would result in an anticlimax. That unfortunate circumstance established the tradition of performing only the first part of the Narration. In fact, the first time the second part was"
"Satyagraha (opera) Satyagraha (; Sanskrit सत्याग्रह, ""satyāgraha"" ""insistence on truth"") is a 1979 opera in three acts for orchestra, chorus and soloists, composed by Philip Glass, with a libretto by Glass and Constance DeJong. Loosely based on the life of Mahatma Gandhi, it forms the second part of Glass's ""Portrait Trilogy"" of operas about men who changed the world, which includes ""Einstein on the Beach"" and ""Akhnaten"". Glass's style can broadly be described as minimalist. The work is scored for 2 sopranos, 2 mezzo-sopranos, 2 tenors, a baritone, 2 basses, a large SATB chorus, and an orchestra of strings and"
"Linderhof Palace. His concepts for Falkenstein Castle could not be realized, as the project was abandoned after the king's death in 1886. Jank himself died in Munich on 25 November 1888. Christian Jank Christian Jank (15 July 1833 – 25 November 1888) was a scenic painter and stage designer. Jank was born in Munich, the Bavarian capital. Here he originally worked as a scenic painter. Among other things he was involved in the scenery for Richard Wagner's opera ""Lohengrin"". His work piqued the interest of Ludwig II, who commissioned him to create concepts for his architectural projects inspired by Wagner."
"on Gogol's ""Dead Souls"" (1976) and a ballet based on Chekhov's ""The Seagull"" (1979). It was followed by ""Enchanted Wanderer"" in 2002, based on Nikolai Leskov's 1873 novella ""The Enchanted Wanderer"", and ""Boyarinya Morozova"" in 2006, based on texts from ""The Life of Protopope Avvakum"" and ""The Life of Boyarina Morozova"". In 2001 Shchedrin extracted ""symphonic fragments"" for orchestra from the opera score, which were published as ""Lolita-Serenade"", dedicated to Mariss Jansons. The opera ""Lolita"" was commissioned by Mstislav Rostropovich. It was first intended for the Opéra Bastille, the new opera house in Paris, inaugurated in 1989. Instead, it was"
"In Paris, he sang at the Paris Opera from 1862 until 1867 in operas by Verdi, Donizetti, Mozart, and others. The composer of French grand operas, Giacomo Meyerbeer, died before the first production of his final opera ""L'Africaine"" but left instructions in his will that the opera's leading role, of Vasco da Gama, must be created by Naudin. The tenor agreed to sing the role, in French, for an enormous fee. After his great success in that part, he sang with the Paris Opera for two more years, and then moved into Wagnerian repertoire, singing ""Lohengrin"" (in Italian) in England"
"libretto for Puccini's ""Manon Lescaut."" Ruggero Leoncavallo Ruggero (or Ruggiero) Leoncavallo (; 23 April 18579 August 1919) was an Italian opera composer and librettist. Although he produced numerous operas and other songs throughout his career it is his opera ""Pagliacci"" (1892) that remained his lasting contribution, despite attempts to escape the shadow of his greatest success. Today he remains largely known for ""Pagliacci"", one of the most popular works in the repertory, appearing as number 20 on the Operabase list of the most-performed operas worldwide in the 2013/14 season. His other well-known works include the song ""Mattinata"", popularized by Enrico"
"Antigone (Honegger) Antigone is an opera (""tragédie musicale"") in three acts by Arthur Honegger to a French libretto by Jean Cocteau based on the tragedy ""Antigone"" by Sophocles. Honegger composed the opera between 1924 and 1927. It premiered on 28 December 1927 at the Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie with sets designed by Pablo Picasso and costumes by Coco Chanel. Honegger had a passionate interest in theatre. Prior to ""Antigone"", he had composed film scores and incidental music for plays as well as an oratorio, ""Le roi David"", which he called a ""dramatic psalm"" and premiered in 1921. From 1922"
"whole creative output of a great composer"". The opera contains 41 individual singing roles. The first performance was at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden on 26 April 1951. The conductor was Leonard Hancock, whom Vaughan Williams had personally chosen to conduct the premiere, and the director Nevill Coghill. The Covent Garden performances were not a success, and the company dropped the opera from its repertoire in 1952. However, a student production at the University of Cambridge in 1954 met with greater approval from the composer, notably for the performance of John Noble as Pilgrim. John Noble later recorded the"
"L'Aiglon (opera) L'Aiglon is an opera (""drame musical"") in five acts composed by Arthur Honegger and Jacques Ibert. Honegger composed Acts II, III, and IV, with Ibert composing Acts I and V. A 2016 reviewer described it as ""a singular piece of work"" with its ""blend of operetta, divertissement, conversation piece, historical pageant and, in the disturbingly powerful fourth act set on the Napoleonic battlefield at Wagram, phantasmagoria peopled with living figures onstage and dead voices off"". The libretto by Henri Cain was based on Edmond Rostand's 1900 play, ""L'Aiglon"" (""The Eaglet""), about the life of Napoleon II, who was"
"with Abbey and Grau's Opera company from the Met and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, he directed the American debuts of Emma Eames, Gulia Ravogli, Édouard de Reszke, and his brother Jean in the title role of ""Lohengrin"". He taught singing in New York from 1892 onwards, and directed a season of opera in New Orleans in 1899/1900. He died in New York City on 4 November 1908, two days after his 71st birthday. Aged 20, he wrote a comic opera, ""Una fortuna in prigione"" ('A Fortune in Prison'), which was finished in London on 20 October 1858. An index card"